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Role: Orson Welles

Producer: AboutFACE Ireland

Director: Paul Meade

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Role: Billy Evans

Paul played the role of the troubled avenging son Billy in the US premiere of this noir play, staged site-specifically at the Bethesda Fountain bathrooms in Central Park.

Producer: The Irish Arts Center

Director: Paul Walker

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Role: Champ

Paul played champion showdog Champ in the world premiere Off-Broadway of this comedic play by Marianne O’Driscoll.

Producer: the cell

Director: Kira Simring

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Role: William O’Reilly.

Paul played Irish firefighter William in the world premiere of this new musical Off-Broadway.

Producer: the cell at 80 St. Marks.

Director: Kira Simring

Role: Leamy

In his Off-Broadway debut, Paul played the role of Leamy Flanagan, the innocent son who questions the corrupt small-town goings-on, in the Off-Broadway premiere of John B. Keane’s classic play.

Director: Ciaran O’Reilly

Producer: The Irish Repertory Theatre

Role: Victor M. McGowan

Director: Kira Simring

World Premiere production at the cell in New York City.

Remounted for UK Premiere, a co-production of the cell and the Kino Teatr of Saint Leonard’s on Sea, Sussex.

Paul originated the lead role of Victor McGowan in the World Premiere of The McGowan Trilogy by Seamus Scanlon, and directed by Kira Simring, a trilogy of one-act plays examining three stages in the life of an OCD, pogo-dancing, literature-, punk- and tea-loving IRA enforcer. In The Long Wet Grass, Victor kidnaps his childhood sweetheart to a remote Mayo lakeside, to challenge her about collaborating with the British; in Dancing at Lunacy, the broken, damaged Victor spirals out of control as he seeks out a possible informer in a Belfast bar; in Boys Swam Before Me, an on-the-run Victor breaks into a nursing home at night to make a very final visit to his Alzheimers-ridden mother, looking for answers … and finding them. The play was premiered Off-Broadway at the cell; the show transferred the following year to England, where Paul starred in its UK premiere, as the opening show of the new Kino Teatr in St. Leonard’s on Sea, Sussex. The play has since been published by Arden Press, while The Long Wet Grass has since been adapted to an award-winning short film, where Paul returned to the role of Victor.

Roles: Padraig Pearse / McGowan

Director: Kira Simring

Producer: Cell Theatre

Paul performed contrasting lead roles in these two new one-act plays Off-Broadway, linked by the theme of Irish republicanism, from the ideals of 1916 to the decadent mob-mentality of the 1970’s Troubles. In the first half, in Blood by Larry Kirwan, Paul played the Irish poet, educator and revolutionary leader Padraig Pearse in a claustrophobic scene as he and Sean Mac Diarmada try and convince James Connolly to join the Easter Rising. In the second half, in Dancing at Lunacy by Seamus Scanlon, Paul played Victor McGowan, the OCD, pogo-dancing, literature-, punk- and tea-loving IRA enforcer, as he seeks out a possible informer in a 1970’s Belfast bar. (An updated version of Dancing at Lunacy would gone on to form part of hit play The McGowan Trilogy).

Roles: Ensemble

Director: Paul Brennan

Producer: Helix / AboutFACE

Role: Dominic Reedbeck

Director: Cailin Heffernan

Theatre: Boomerang, New York

Role: Tom

Director: Kevin M. Collins

Theatre: 1^st Irish Festival New York